Cincinnati, OH, USA

Matthew Fitzpatrick is currently Director & Associate General Counsel – Beauty Care and Fabric & Home Care for The Procter & Gamble Company and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in the legal department at P&G since 1996 in various roles starting as intellectual property counsel focusing on patent practice in P&G’s feminine care and baby care businesses. In 2006 he was appointed Associate General Counsel for P&G’s North American baby care business with responsibility for intellectual property, advertising, and other commerical law matters. Between 2008 and 2012 Matt lived in Kobe, Japan with his family and was responsible for P&G’s intellectual property department and operations throughout Asia. His current assignment includes legal support for advertising, claim substantiation, product registration and regulation, and brand support activities for the brands in P&G’s beauty and fabric & home care businesses.

Prior to joining P&G, Matt was a nuclear safety analysis and licensing engineer at the Clavert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in sourthern Maryland. Matt received a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law. He is a member of the Ohio Bar, is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.